Ojibwa myths and tales, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.), sentence 2
A good many years ago there were two head chiefs of the two big nations of Indians, the Ojibwas and the Mohawks.
Who acts: two head chiefs · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Ojibwa and Mohawk. (no. 2.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two head chiefs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 chiefs | nummod |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chiefs | compound |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nations | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nations | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 nations | nummod |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nations | amod |
| 15 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chiefs | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Indians | case |
| 17 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 nations | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ojibwas | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ojibwas | det |
| 20 | Ojibwas | Ojibwa | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 Indians | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Mohawks | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Mohawks | det |
| 23 | Mohawks | mohawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Ojibwas | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two head chiefs of the two big nations of Indians and the Ojibwas and the Mohawks | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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